Before the Peg Bundy influence took hold, Jim Jupiter was a local aerobic instructor who also hosted a Chicago area TV fitness show. Peg, who won a contest which gave her (and Marcy) a chance to exercise with him, starts introducing him to a steady diet of junk food (namely bon-bons) and smoking, almost overnight, it transformed him almost immediately into an out of shape couch potato, which ultimately kills him, by giving him a heart attack!!